www.azcentral.com: The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration would be abolished in favor of state workplace regulation under legislation introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs.
Biggs, an Arizona Republican who is running for governor, earlier this month introduced the Nullify OSHA Act, or NOSHA, a bill that would abolish the government agency that since 1970 has set federal health and safety standards in U.S. workplaces.
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I really just cannot understand how anyone thinks this is a good idea. On some ideological level, I understand the whole states rights idea, because it's hard to make decisions for hundreds of millions of people all at once. But with things that are as big a deal as worker health and safety, or say abortion rights (as a totally hypothetical example), creating a country where the treatment of workers differs vastly from one state to another based on whatever crazy person is in the driver seat of that state is not a good idea. Nothing screams late stage capitalism quite like the idea that the day to day life of the working class has become too lax, and we need to pull back on those pesky health restrictions put in place. If working conditions are so unhealthy that the federal government decided it's illegal, I just can’t buy the argument that it's fine in one state and not in another. Safety is safety, and it's the very last thing that should ever have its corners cut, especially by people who will never be directly impacted by the legislation they are passing.
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